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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Hallowe'en Week - Purple Witches Tights!

Nails I Love

HALLOWE’EN
WEEK – Witches Tights

Hi Goddesses

I have a great mani
for you today – it’s basically a taped mani (my first proper one where I attempted
straight lines) in darkening shades of purple that eventually end in a stripe
of black.It’s a mani I would have
wanted to do anyway, but it also reminded me of the tights a witch might wear
lol.

The colours here
started with a base of China Glaze LOL, a medium to dark purple holo.I only started with this cos I was swatching
it anyway!Then we have a NYX electric
blurple called Midnight Amethyst, the amazing Ready to Pounce from Wet n Wild’s
On The Prowl Collection, and finally, SH Black Out.

You’ll need to be
gentle with my first attempt, but it’s not too bad.I didn’t quite get the polish to the sides of
the nail, so I ended up doing something refilling with a thin dotting tool,
just to level the stripes out.

I really love this
combination – Ombre Striped Gradient? – and I can see it working well with a
lot of colours.The Ready To Pounce is
really hard to photograph, and it’s only in the sunshine pics that you can
really tell there are 4 stripes.

I then wanted to go
one step further, and what better glitter to use at Hallowe’en than NOPI
Pitch-Black Glimmer, which is literally coal dust in a bottle.I love the overall effect this added – almost
like black sparkly cobwebs.

Enjoy – I am saving
the best for last tomorrow, and it involves a LOT of blood J

Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.